PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Shads said:
I think it depends on how much Discovery is provided with our responses to the allegations. If all of it, then it may stop there. If limited, then I suspect it will continue until full Discovery is provided which could last over 6 months to complete. If our papers are truly irrefutable then all good lawyers will bring things to an end.
If this was a public hearing like Uefa then I could see it going all the way. As it is private then the value of it going ahead is severely limited. I cannot state what other agendas are at play here, but my gut tells me that things will get resolved following Discovery unless the PL provide evidence that was not available to UEFA that is capable of defeating our Defenses. That still seems unlikely.
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UEFA(?) was a public hearing?
 
domalino said:
I think this is wishful thinking unfortunately

If full disclosure of the requested documents would have killed this, it would have died 4 years ago.

Over the last week I’ve become more and more confident that the outcome is the club will win because there’s no way the PL can have the evidence, but we’ll get pinged for not cooperating.

UEFA brought an awful case because Leterme and co were under massive pressure to do something to bolster FFP after fucking up the PSG case.

The PL has brought one in an attempt to stave off the regulator.
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Yep, agree with this (apart from the independent regulator bit). The PL have put themselves in a terrible spot by opening an investigation too quickly after the UEFA case broke. Now they are stuck with how to get out of it.

Politically, they can't now drop the case, especially after the press have whipped up the idea of fraud and misleading auditors, which I don't think is the PL charge at all btw. But if they let the case run, they are likely to suffer the same fate as UEFA.

They should have waited until CAS was finished, accepted the results on those issues, then decided if any of the time-barred issues, or any other issues such as, for example, how we accounted for shared services, image rights and so on, warranted a further investigation according to PL rules.

Shame.
 
Metal Biker said:
Oh listen to the backtracking from the Premier League clubs who wanted this!

"We never asked the PL to accuse City! Don't accuse of us of being cunts!"

A week is a long time in politics and football too, it seems.
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I get the feeling once we are found not guilty, the PL will regret this in a huge way, the club will hit them hard, as Pep quite rightly said, huge damage has been caused to out club and it must be repaid.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Wouldn't it just be amazing if we went on to win the prem this season. The fallout from all the bitter city hating wankers would be colossal, we just have to do it
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It's almost written in the stars, I would be certain that the events of this week have done of galvanizing the club more than ever and probably more importantly sorting out the dressing room division.
 
1961_vintage said:
Is this just fantasy?
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It's fear and the realisation the hornets nest has been disturbed and they know what's coming.

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PhdWave said:
As others have mentioned, if a whistleblower player/manager steps forward and shows his back account receiving money from UAE related account every year (and he has to have some kind of evidence that this money is coming from city's owners) it seems impossible.
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This is all correct. The only things that are important to the auditors are i) was a contract signed ii) were services performed iii) were the services paid for in full? As long as those three things are OK, the rest is just book-keeping. For all of the sponsorships in question, for example, all those three things happened, so no-one can question the "true and fair" view given by the annual account imo. Some book-keeping mistakes between related party companies? Maybe. Some dispute about which companies are related? Maybe. Some question about the appropriateness of some accounting treatments? Maybe. But none of that is fraudulent or misleading auditors.

On the whistleblower, I would add. Even if he can show that he was paid out of Mansour's petty cash, it doesn't matter. What matters are the contracts and how they are reflected in the accounts. Mancini had a contract with Al Jazira? It shouldn't be anywhere near City's annual accounts. Broke some disclosure rule? Maybe, but nothing to do with the club's accounts.
 
daveoswald said:
I would be amazed if the UAE intelligence agencies have not been having a look at some of the red tops activities, and certain journalists, which they would be entitled to do given these people are trying to damage their national interest, who knows what scandal they might be aware of.
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I had wondered about that. The UAE spy agency is one of the best in the world.
 
I hope we took the piss. I hope we keep doin it. Fuck
em. Its not as if we've murdered anyone, or used the deaths of people to gain poperalety.

Keep takin the piss City. Fuck em
 
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